The Top Bar in tasks for proofreading & quality checking

Introduction

When proofreading or doing QC in Topcontent, you will see a top bar with useful information. This feature has been created to help people better understand who is working on a particular Phase.

We have introduced a “Levels” functionality to provide information to one’s working experience in Topcontent. It also reflects the efforts taken on the previous phase. This can be seen in the “Time spent” functionality.

The view for Proofreading

Time spent

When proofreading, the time spent reflects how much time a writer has spent in Phase one.

Important! Important! Low time spent may be an indicator that the writer has not taken on board all instructions/feedback.

Please note that high time spent doesn’t necessarily mean the opposite; people may multitask and do other things in parallel to writing a task.

Levels

Each skill has a Level measurement based on this algorithm:

Level

More than (words)

Less than (words)

0

1

1000

1

1001

3000

2

3001

5000

3

5001

8000

4

8001

13000

5

13001

21000

6

21001

34000

7

34001

55000

8

55001

89000

9

89001

144000

10

144001

233000

11

233001

377000

12

377001

610000

13

610001

987000

14

987001

1597000

15

1597001

2584000

16

2584001

4181000

17

4181001

6765000

18

6765001

10946000

19

10946001

17711000

etc

So, if a freelancer has done any amount of words in Writing EN (Phase One), and has just started proofreading (3600 words done), the “used skill” level will be 2 when he/she sends from Proofreading to Quality Check.

Total experience is calculated in the same way, but for all skills ever used in Topcontent.

The view for Quality Check

Quality Check has a more advanced view.

Levels

Quality Checker sees the levels of both Phase One and Proofreader.

Time spent

This also shows the total amount of time spent by proofreader, in all iterations.

Percentage changed

This shows how much has been changed from the first version (the one Proofreader received initially) and the current version before your eyes.

Iterations

Iterations count all phases, so 4 iterations means:1) Phase One “Send”2) Proofreader “Return” (Reject)3) Phase one “Send” again4) Proofreader “Send” (Approve)So “2” is great, “4” is fine, and more than 4 is something to pay attention to, as the task has been sent back and forth a lot.